“Ugh, I finally feel alive!”
Balloon Gum had just finished some urgent business.
He was coming out of the bathroom without washing his hands when…
*THUD!*
A woman who had been waiting for her chance in the hallway struck Balloon Gum’s head with a blunt weapon as hard as she could.
“…Huh?”
Balloon Gum staggered from the blow and collapsed to the floor.
And then.
The woman continued to smash Balloon Gum’s head with the blunt weapon.
*THUD! THUD! THUD!*
“Haah, haah…”
So brutally that there was nothing left of his form.
“That’s enough.”
Lee Yoo-na, who had been watching the scene expressionlessly, spoke up.
The woman, who had stopped her actions, caught her breath and replied in a clumsy tone.
“…Okay.”
“Move the body to the basement.”
“Together…”
“Together? Did you forget that I’m weaker than a man when I’m inside this shell?”
“That’s the same for me…”
“Stop making excuses and move it yourself. You haven’t been running around outside like me, so you’ve got plenty of strength left.”
“But… it’s hard to do it alone…”
While Lee Yoo-na and the woman with the blunt weapon were having this conversation.
Below them.
Balloon Gum’s head, lying scattered on the floor, was slowly regenerating.
***
A house with a blue roof.
On its first floor, a mini drone was busily flying around.
It was Drifting AI’s drone.
[I report. One person in the basement.]
[I report. Three people in the hallway, including the Balloon Gum Collector.]
[I report. Four people in the living room, including Gye Se-hoon.]
[I report. There are a total of five residents on the first floor. There is one person in the basement.]
[I will transmit all this information.]
[Additional information. The Balloon Gum Collector was attacked by a resident and his head exploded.]
Drifting AI was transmitting the information it had gathered in real-time.
To Maehwa Tree and Jujijoa.
Two women.
***
*Buzz.*
Maehwa’s phone, which had been lying dormant in the car, vibrated.
“Huh?”
Maehwa opened her phone and checked the message.
There was no sender number, but at the bottom of the message, it said, “Sender: Drifting AI.”
“What? Is this really a message from Drifting? How did they get my number?”
“What’s Drifting, senior?”
“There’s something like that. Anyway…”
Maehwa opened the passenger seat door with a serious expression and continued.
“Se-hoon seems to be in danger.”
***
Maehwa and her junior quickly got out of the car.
They forced open the front gate of the house where Gye Se-hoon had entered and rushed inside.
This scene was perfectly captured by Gye Se-hoon’s camera.
[Gyeongsaeng Guburi]─?? What are those guys who just went in?
[Handsome Licker]─Thieves?
[Yoho]─What kind of thief boldly enters through the front gate?
[Min Ji]─Then maybe robbers?
[Reverse Rape Mania]─Shouldn’t we report this?
[Qkrnfl892]─It seems right to report it. Forcing the door open is suspicious from the start.
[Drifting AI]─I report. I say there’s no need to worry. I explain that the person who just entered is Maehwa Tree.
[Big Girl]─Ah-ha.
[Gyeongsaeng Guburi]─Oh!
[Gyeongsaeng Guburi]─What the hell is “ah-ha”? Why the hell is Maehwa breaking in there?
[Yoho]─Why is Maehwa there?
[Drifting AI]─I report. I say there are circumstances.
[Handsome Licker]─Drifting, how do you know that?
[Drifting AI]─I report. I say I have no obligation to explain.
[Qkrnfl892]─Is this a lie?
[Se-hoon Defense Team]─There’s no way they’d lie about this. And looking at the clothes of the guys who just went in, it seems like Maehwa? The clothes look exactly like an exorcist’s.
[Qkrnfl892]─Oh? Is Maehwa really an exorcist?
[Se-hoon Defense Team]─I don’t know.
[Maid]─Wow…
[Drifting AI]─I report. I say Maehwa is indeed an exorcist.
Just as Drifting’s chat was coming up.
“Damn it! I shouldn’t have waited on the back mountain!”
Jujijoa, with her golden hair fluttering, stopped briefly in front of the gate, then turned and rushed into the house.
Of course, this scene was also broadcasted.
[Handsome Licker]─What the hell is that Yankee?
[Semen Thief]─Wow. That foreigner who just went in is super fast.
[Qkrnfl892]─Does she have boosters on her feet? Can a human run that fast?
[Yoho]─What is this? Why are all these strange people going in?
[Reverse Rape Mania]─Is she an invitee?
[Gyeongsaeng Guburi]─Don’t talk nonsense. I’ll smash your head with a hammer before you know it.
[Drifting AI]─I report. I say the person who just entered is Jujijoa.
[Big Girl]─Ah-ha.
[Se-hoon Defense Team]─Wow, Juji is a foreigner?
[Qkrnfl892]─Really? Why is Juji here?
[Handsome Licker]─??? Did they plan a meetup here or something?
[Min Ji]─Exactly. What on earth is happening right now…
[Gyeongsaeng Guburi]─How many stalkers are there, damn it.
[Drifting AI]─I report. I say they are not stalkers. I explain that there are circumstances.
With this chat.
Drifting’s chat didn’t come up for a while.
[Se-hoon Defense Team]─Should I go too? Lol.
[Gyeongsaeng Guburi]─Don’t go, you bastard.
[Se-hoon Defense Team]─Okay…
***
In the hallway in front of the bathroom.
The head of the woman with the blunt weapon rolled on the floor.
The body of the woman, whose neck had been ripped out, lost its balance and collapsed to the floor without a head.
“Ugh. Why did you have to hit my head? If my head gets messed up, you won’t take responsibility… By the way, where is this? Why am I here? Hmm… I don’t know.”
*THUD!*
Balloon Gum, in a dazed state, frowned and stomped on the woman’s head, crushing it.
“Anyway, this is self-defense. You broke my head too.”
Lee Yoo-na, who witnessed this scene, lost strength in her legs.
She collapsed to the floor and trembled.
“W-what? You definitely had your head exploded…”
“Huh? Who are you… Ah! Were you the one who guided me to the bathroom?”
Balloon Gum slowly approached Lee Yoo-na.
“D-don’t come closer!”
As the frightened Lee Yoo-na curled up.
*Tap.*
A notebook fell out of her pocket and onto the floor.
It caught Balloon Gum’s attention.
“What’s this?”
Balloon Gum bent down and picked up the notebook.
He quickly flipped through the pages and skimmed the contents.
<Manual #23>
-Success rate: 20%
Step.1
1. A takes a picture of any object near the man with a camera.
2. If the man suspects A of secretly photographing him, A denies it with the most innocent expression possible.
3. A shows the man the phone gallery to prove innocence.
=> The man feels sorry for A.
Step.2
1. B, who was waiting elsewhere, approaches and gets very angry at the man.
2. A admits some fault and calms B down.
3. A apologizes to the man on behalf of B. (B also apologizes but should look reluctant.)
=> A gains a reason to invite the man to a meal.
Step.3
1. A tells the man they want to properly apologize and offers to cook a meal at their place.
2. The man, feeling sorry, won’t refuse immediately and will consider it.
…
…
=> Statistically, 1 out of 5 men accept the meal invitation.
※A should use a warm-looking “shell.”
※B should use a beautiful-looking “shell.”
“The manual is really diverse.”
Balloon Gum closed the notebook.
After putting the notebook back in his pocket, he looked at Lee Yoo-na and asked.
“Hey. Are you guys yokai?”
“Huh? W-well…”
Lee Yoo-na stammered and avoided eye contact.
Balloon Gum, leaning closer to her, smiled brightly and said.
“I’m just curious. You don’t seem like an experiment, but it’s strange that you’re still alive even after your head was cut off. If you tell the truth, I’ll spare you.”
“Y-you’ll spare me? Really?”
“Yeah! I don’t lie!”
After a brief moment of hesitation, Lee Yoo-na trembled and answered.
“Yokai… That’s right…”
“Really? So that’s why you attacked me. Hey, what kind of yokai are you?”
“A parasite yokai…”
“Parasite yokai? So you’re parasitizing a human body right now?”
“Yes… I’m parasitizing a human brain…”
The smile disappeared from Balloon Gum’s face.
Seeing his expression, Lee Yoo-na got scared and quickly added.
“P-please spare me! I didn’t want to eat humans! I just had to follow orders!”
“Follow orders? Whose orders?”
“The Great Yokai in the basement… All parasite yokai, including me, will explode and die if we don’t follow its orders…”
“Basement? The yokai in the basement is your leader?”
“Yes…”
“Hmm. So if that guy is gone, you won’t have to eat humans anymore, right?”
“Yes, yes…”
“Alright. I’ll spare you for now, so guide me to the basement.”
And so, Balloon Gum led Lee Yoo-na to the basement.
The fact that Gye Se-hoon had also come here was temporarily forgotten due to his head exploding.
***
He easily subdued two women.
As he slowly approached where he sensed movement, they suddenly jumped out and attacked.
He didn’t use the knife.
It was just for intimidation.
“Yoo-soon. These people seem like robbers…”
After knocking out the women presumed to be robbers.
He was about to turn around and speak to Lee Yoo-soon when…
*BANG!*
“Se-hoon, are you okay!?”
“Hero to the rescue!”
Two women burst through the door and rushed into the living room.
They were familiar faces.
Maehwa and the Cat-eared Woman, whom he had briefly met before.
“Maehwa? Why are you here…”
This time, he couldn’t finish his sentence either.
“Se-hoon!”
An unknown foreign woman called his name fluently and followed them in.
At an almost superhuman speed, like a bolt of lightning.
‘Is she even human? How is she so fast?’
He knew Maehwa, but the blonde woman was a stranger.
Since she knew his name, he thought she might be one of the viewers.
Not sure, he decided to ask her identity.
“Who are you…”
But.
[Screeeech!]
[Groooowl!]
“Damn it, seriously.”
Once again, his words were drowned out by strange interference.
The two women he had knocked out had woken up.
But their appearance was a bit strange.
Their joints were bent grotesquely, and their bodies were swelling up like balloons.
‘…Huh? Were they not just robbers but yokai?’
Just as he was pondering this.
Maehwa lightly swung her left arm diagonally.
Then, Maehwa flowers bloomed all over the yokai’s bodies.
[Groooowl…]
The Maehwa flowers grew larger and larger.
In contrast, the yokai’s bodies began to dry up like mummies.
As if the flowers were sucking the life out of the yokai.
In no time, the yokai had all their moisture drained and died miserably.
And the other yokai,
*Bang!*
The blonde foreigner shot it in the head with a pistol.
The yokai, with its head pierced, collapsed to the floor, twitched, and soon stopped moving.
Even if they were yokai.
If they had a physical form, they couldn’t withstand bullets.
Or maybe that yokai was just a weak one.
“Wow…”
Just as I was marveling at the rare sight.
Suddenly, the eyes of the women looking at me widened.
“Se-hoon, behind you!”
“Se-hoon!”
Maehwa and the foreigner shouted simultaneously.
A huge shadow loomed beneath my feet.
[Groooowl!]
I turned around.
There stood Lee Yoo-soon, her body grotesquely swollen and enlarged.
‘What? Was she not human either? This is crazy.’
I was slightly panicked.
I thought only the robbers were yokai, but I never imagined the homeowner was also a yokai.
*Hiss-!*
Without time to assess the situation, a blue tongue shot out from Lee Yoo-soon’s mouth.
It was a precise attack aimed at my head.
But it was slow enough to see.
‘I don’t know what’s going on, but let’s subdue her first.’
*Swish.*
I twisted my body to the left, letting the tongue slip past.
Then, turning my body in the opposite direction,
*Crash!*
I delivered a powerful back kick to Lee Yoo-soon’s head.
[Screeeech!]
Lee Yoo-soon, with her skull caved in, let out a screeching scream and staggered back. She couldn’t see and flailed her arms comically.
Not missing this opportunity.
I pushed off a chair with my left foot and forcefully kicked the dining table with my right foot, launching myself into the air like a feather.
Spinning my body once in mid-air, I brought my heel down with full force onto Lee Yoo-soon’s crown.
*Boom!*
The sound of flesh exploding was drowned out by the deafening crash of the floor shattering.
“…Huh?”
“What the…?”
Maehwa and the foreigner, who had been rushing over, froze in place.
In front of Lee Yoo-soon, whose head had exploded and was buried in the floor.
I stood calmly, covered in blue blood, surrounded by a heavy silence.
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